Crime Movies of 1973
The Sting
Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Lady Ice
In this stylish caper drama, Andy Hammond (Donald Sutherland) is a detective working ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
The Don Is Dead
In this organized crime drama (one of many that came in the wake of ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Charley Varrick
Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Badlands
"He wanted to die with me and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms." A ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Mean Streets
"You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the autobiographical milieu of ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Dillinger
John Milius's first directorial effort in its own small way set the stage in the 1970s for a subgenre of action films that depict a nostalgia for historical figures tinged with a hard-edged skepticism. Warren Oates stars as John Dillinger, ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
The Mack
A box-office success during the early '70s, this blaxploitation flick traces the life of a Bay Area pimp facing drug dealers, crooked cops and fellow ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Honor Thy Father
Gay Talese's bestseller Honor Thy Father is given a superb, albeit slightly expurgated, treatment in this made-for-TV movie. Joseph Bologna plays Bill Bonanno, the son of New York City ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Willie Dynamite
Willie Dynamite (Roscoe Orman) is a Manhattan pimp whose life and career are documented in this blaxploitation flick. ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
Love, death, sainthood and murder figure in this ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
The Yakuza Papers 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Bunta Sugawara returns as Shozo Hirono in this sequel to the acclaimed yakuza film Jingi Naki Tatakai (aka The Yakuza ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Black Caesar
Cult director Larry Cohen (It's Alive) directed this violent blaxploitation film. Nasty racist ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Crimson
In this Spanish horror/crime drama, a gangster is shot in the ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Book of Numbers
Raymond St. Jacques both directs and stars in The Book of Numbers. St. Jacques and Philip Thomas play depression-era African Americans, ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
The Yakuza Papers
Kinji Fukasaku directed this powerful and uncompromising look at the deadly stakes of life among the Yakuza -- the Japanese Mafia. Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) is a former Japanese soldier who, ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Milano Rovente
A violent crime thriller from cult filmmaker Umberto Lenzi, Milano Rovente deals with the rivalry between a pair of kingpins in the Milanese prostitution racket. Sadistic ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Grudge Song
This fourth film in the series which began with Joshu 701-go Sasori (1972) almost didn't get made because star Meiko Kaji was tired of her role. Toei ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Following her successful prison break at the end of Joshu Sasori Dai 41 Zakkyobou, Scorpion (Meiko Kaji) begins this third episode in the series hiding in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Yasagure Anego-den: Soukatsu Lynch
With a title like Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture, it's safe for the viewer to expect a wild ride. Director Teruo Ishii delivers on that expectation in a big way with this film but not in the manner ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
Lady Snowblood
A woman seeks the revenge that was her birthright in this action ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War
Kinji Fukasaku's violent chronicle of mob warfare in ... [ Crime movie - 1973 ]
